Nicomachus (biography)

This is a biographical entry on Nicomachus of Gerasa from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, maintained by the University of St Andrews. As an established academic reference resource maintained by a university mathematics department rather than a full monograph length study, it is a reliable source for standard biographical and bibliographic facts about the ancient Pythagorean mathematician. Its limit is exactly that reference entry scope: it is a concise academic biography rather than an extended scholarly treatment, so a deeper claim about Nicomachus's specific philosophical arguments benefits from a dedicated academic study of his surviving texts.